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- From: njs@watson.ibm.com (Nick Simicich)
- Subject: Re: Linux - the future? [really: TeX flames]
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.171217.150315@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:12:17 GMT
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- References: <Bx7pDp.5E9@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Nov07.192948.15392@ksmith.uucp> <peterd.721323574@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com>
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- In article <peterd.721323574@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com> peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers) writes:
- >keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
- >
- >>Hmm, I know a *LOT* of secretaries. Not one of which has ever even
- >>*THOUGHT* of doing any mathmatics typesetting.
-
- [....]
-
- >Of course there are secretaries out there who typeset mathematics -
- >they just happen to work for people who write papers or textbooks that
- >require mathematics typesetting. You don't think the chairman of the
- >math department at your local college types his papers himself, do
- >you?
- >
- >As a data point, someone I know who is a secretary for a professor at
- >MIT does do mathematical typesetting, and uses TeX for it. It may be
- >complicated, but it's simpler than the alternatives.
-
- I have a friend who used to make her living as a mathametical typist,
- freelancing typing papers and thesises (sp? thesi?) for folks before
- TeX. (She used a Selectric with symbol typeballs, and also presapply
- transfer symbol sheets, and some hand drawing...) I showed her LaTeX
- and equation typing stuff, and she knew why she was not getting that
- sort of work anymore, but she wasn't real impressed. Recently, I
- showed her the Word-for-Windows equation editor, and she was a lot more
- impressed.
-
- Secretaries around here who use Unix workstations use Frame or
- Interleaf. Or they use OS/2 and one of the wysiwyg products. But
- before workstations, and before PCs, most of them used GML, on IBM
- Script, on the mainframes.
-
- I think that the answer is that Secretaries may be smarter and more
- adaptable than many folks give them credit for.
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